I'd like to welcome everybody to today's presentation on oxytocin, your love or survival hormone.

I'm your host, Dr. Donnellyce Snipes.

In this presentation, you're going to learn what oxytocin is, the physical, interpersonal,

emotional, and cognitive benefits of oxytocin. We'll review a few important clinical implications as far as helping people increase

oxytocin.

It's not just anybody can do it anywhere, anytime, and it's beneficial.

So, you know, just a little prelude to that.

And then we'll identify at least 10 ways to increase oxytocin.

Generally, if people want to reduce stress, improve their sleep, improve their A1C, their

blood sugar rating, reduce their blood pressure, improve their immunity,

enhance relationships, and interpersonal processing, improve their desire to interact with

others, reduce anxiety and depression, enhance motivation, improve attention,

cognitive flexibility, and task switching. If they want to do these things,

then they want to increase oxytocin. It is not a one and done. You can't just increase

oxytocin and think everything's magically going to be well, just like you can't increase

serotonin and expect everything's going to magically be well. But increasing oxytocin, like when we increase

other neurotransmitters and hormones, it will increase its buddies with it. And when we increase

it, the positive effects of oxytocin have bidirectional positive impacts on most pieces of our life.

If you're looking for those interventions, you can jump all the way down to slide 26.

Oxytocin is a peptide hormone made in the hypothalamus, that's part of the brain,

that functions as a neurotransmitter

in the brain. Instead of the love hormone or the bonding hormone, I like to think of oxytocin

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